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bandful days are here. so are the days with swollen lips. still remember at dinner with yi and friends, we talked about NS and its potential disastrous after-effects to a particular occupation named a musician. aside from the guy who paid to skip defer NS, i guess there's no difference to the rest of us here. it might not affect people to such a great extent, but it still do a bit of harm. i'm trying to say that those future pianist or guitar greats that singapore wants to produce will have to make a huge sacrifice come 19 and 20 years old. for band and chamber i think, its still alright as there are saf bands and chamber groups. choir, even simpler. just relax under a tree in tekong and sing. with organ sound...right. but pianist and guitarist great-wannabes will have their fingers crumble right under the sun, and practice days are limited to only the weekends usually. do something, save the musicans. haha. but no, please don't set up an SAF piano ensemble or harp ensemble.. was with mx one fine day and dropped by the canteen to see how our 40-smth or 50-smth year old friends were doing. so we managed to catch up with the two aunties at the pick'n'dip stall and we left an hour later with well, mixed feelings. if anyone were to be called veterans and have seen it all, done it all, its gotta be the two of them. anyway we talked about the depth of relationships at our age and like who's gonna suffer more, about marriage, about having kids and all the hesitation and troubles nowadays. interesting to talk to one who has encountered all these years ago. talked about the school. realized much about the politics running high in the sectors of the administration, and the lack of any real understanding or sympathy. the real, real world. another indication of the outrageous side of humans came when there was this ____ guy who was just a total ____. the arrogance which comes with the sad fact that one has got another powerful person on his/her side is quite pathetic. not gonna say what that ____ did, but he drove our friends up to their top. the tears and amount of frustration accompanying their words and tone when they poured their resentment to us was quite overwhelming. i guess it did open my eyes quite a bit more about the outside world. sometimes, when one reaches a certain age, what he or she wants to do is just to make a living and at best enjoy what one's doing. make sure the kids are doing fine, the family can cope financially. suddenly there comes these ____ who purposely put their foots out when we aren't looking, so we've no choice but to tread on their toes, albeit accidentally. things are worse when these ____ do it same thing for a few years. stand up for people, don't stick out your toes on purpose. on a lighter note, swiss ahhhhh liqueur ahhhhh chocolates. ahhhhh. a pair of less rotten lips can wait. haha. performed 21:25 ©
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